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Originally Posted by 0reo
The program had a lot of potential though, you gotta admit.
Who knows how Canada's aero-reputation would be like today if it were never discontinued.
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For the time it was an excellent jet, but it was a single mission interceptor built to take on Soviet bombers at higher altitudes. Canada was smart enough to realize that the day and age of single mission fighters was rapidly approaching he end, and opted to go with multi-mission capable fighters while making some horrible purchasing mistakes with the CF-104 StarFighter and the CF-5 Freedom fighter.
I guess if the Avro program would have continued, they would have been able to transition the technology into other capability fighters, but they were so focused on making the fastest high altitude straight line interceptor that they failed to see the trees.